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Second City Founder Bernard Sahlins Directs Under Milk Wood

U of C Professor Emeritus Nicholas Rudall in Dylan Thomas’s role

December 6, 2010

CHICAGO — The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine, is pleased to present Dylan Thomas’s masterwork Under Milk Wood in a staged reading. Dylan Thomas wrote the radio play just a month before his tragic death at age 39.

Called a “play for voices,” Under Milk Wood follows the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of an imaginary seaside Welsh village called Llareggub. The villagers are a colorful bunch of eccentrics who, in a work of great poetic beauty, decide to cordon off Llareggub from the “sane world.” Six actors will perform over sixty roles in this play, Dylan Thomas’s final work.

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